I am looking into an application where I would like to both Pick and Place from the same work area. Is this possible?
Yes, by selecting a work area to be of type “Other” (usually it is either “Pick” or Place") in the line, the corresponding project settings for the workarea will enable the user to set all three vacuum times (vacuum activation, vacuum reverstion and vacuum off delay). By performing minor modifications to the RAPID code (change trig initialization, logic in pick and place sequence and use OtherIndex instead of PickIndex/PlaceIndex) together with different item types for pick and place targets, the same workarea can be used for both picking and placing. Thus, only one encoder card is required.